Anne-Marie Picard

Professor

Professor Picard arrived at AUP in the Fall of 2003 after obtaining her PhD from University of Toronto and teaching at Western University (Canada) for 14 years.

Her main research area is XXth and XXIth Century French writers (Colette, Sartre, Duras, Cixous, Hébert, Redonnet, Delaume, Houellebecq, Angot...). She approaches the mysteries of literature with mostly linguistic and psychoanalytical tools.

She has also studied the question of non-reading children at Sainte-Anne's Hospital in Paris. Her observation and internships there have allowed her to investigate the complexities of illiteracy and suggest that there are ideological commonalities between children learning how to read and writers endeavouring to write fiction.

Her French book on her findings (LIRE DELIRE. PSYCHANALYSE DE LA LECTURE, Erès, 2010) was published in English by Routledge: FROM ILLITERACY TO LITERATURE; PSYCHOANALYSIS 1 READING (2017).

Education/Degrees

PhD in French Studies (University of Toronto).

M.A.T. (Master of Arts in Teaching French as a Second Language) 5dalhousie University)

Licence ès Lettres (Etudes anglaises) (Université de Rouen)

News

Professor Picard will give a paper at the "10e rendez-vous de la Critique" (University of Porto, Portugal) in October. https://sigarra.up.pt/flup/en/noticias_geral.ver_noticia?p_nr=80643

“Hollowing out a space for the subject to-be: Robinson Crusoe’s textual family romance”. European Science Foundation (ESF), standing committee for the Humanities conference: “First Person Writing, Four Way Reading”